What stops revenge taking? Effects of observed emotional reactions on revenge seeking

ADAMTS revenge on Eve?

Field on Revenge ∗

In a series of recent papers, 1 Hartry Field has proposed a novel class of solutions to the semantic paradoxes, and argued that the new solutions are 'revenge-immune'. He has argued, in particular, that by building on a sufficiently expressive language one can get a language which is able to express its own semantic theory, including its own truth predicates and any intelligible determinacy pre...

Why so complex? Emotional mediation of revenge, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Humans have the cognitive abilities to implement the revenge and forgiveness systems hypothesized by McCullough et al., but the evidence suggests that simpler processes may underlie most revenge cases in humans and other animals. The mediating role of emotions can be at the basis of the flexibility needed in the hypothesized systems and the associated assessment of social relationships.

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus.

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrea Velardi UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA In this issue of Blood, Foley et al show that, in allogeneic hematopoietic transplant recipients, donor-derived natural killer (NK) cells respond to cytomegalovirus (CMV) by acquiring features that are reminiscen...

Revenge of The Given

ing from some or other opaque one; viz by ignoring the mode of representation in certain specifications of a representational content. There are, to be sure, two ways one might read an assertion that John believes the king of France is bored: according to the opaque construal, the speaker takes responsibility for the definite description, according to the transparent construal he doesn’t. (See ...